"There's no way you've won it again!"
By Kate Northrop
HENRICO, Va. — A Virginia man emerged as one of the lucky winners in the Virginia Lottery's New Year's Millionaire Raffle for the second time.
A Virginia resident collected his second win from the annual raffle that took place on Jan. 1, 2024.
In 2012, Nathan Dean won the second-tier prize in Virginia's New Year's Millionaire Raffle. This year, he's done it again.
The second-tier prize amount back in 2012 was $25,000, but since then, the prize amount has increased to $100,000.
"That would be nice," Dean said to himself, eying the larger prize.
Saying the result was simply "nice" is an understatement — he was lucky enough to be holding one of the seven winning raffle tickets worth $100,000 following the drawing on Jan. 1.
"It took a bit to convince my wife I wasn't messing with her," he told the Virginia Lottery. "She said, 'There's no way you've won it again!'"
Dean, who is an environmental chemist, said he doesn't have any immediate plans for the winnings.
The Henrico County resident bought his winning ticket, #420843, at the Food Lion on Lauderdale Drive in Henrico. The other six second-tier prize-winning tickets were sold in Lynchburg, Manassas, Poquoson, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach and Yorktown.
Five tickets won the $1 million top prize. Those winning tickets were bought in Arlington, Fredericksburg, Leesburg, Manassas, and Stafford. Additionally, 1,000 tickets in the raffle each won $500.
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The three most popular stories. 1- repeat jackpot winners. 2 lost/ found lottery ticket. 3 stolen lottery ticket/ cash.
Congratulations. guess he likes the Shalamar song 'Second time around.'
A few days before this raffle closed, VA lottery posted an astronomical amount of tickets were unsold. Then suddenly another FB post that all were sold just like that.
When I win the jackpot, there won't be any stories.
It's just going to be "the jackpot was won" that's all. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, every year I notice that as well. I believe the VA lottery waits until a certain date before the raffle drawing and whatever raffle tickets that are not sold, they take them out of circulation and "say" that the tickets have been sold out. No way, if there are 20K raffle tickets left 2 or 3 days before the drawing, that they will be sold out that fast at $20 a ticket
Virginia is a heavily populated state and a lot of people who do not usually play the lottery will instead buy raffle tickets. I have had a lot of coworkers ask me about the raffle over the years. The tickets seem to be gone by 12-21 usually. I doubt they have issues selling them. Some people just wait till the last minute to buy them.
Congrats Nathan, hope you get the Raffle Hat Trick.